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In 2007, I began my original website, Sonshine's Haven. In 2007, it was turned into a blog and used to keep family updated on my first husband's fight with liver cancer. He passed away November of 2009. We were married for 34+ wonderful years and this journals some of that grief process I've gone through.

I have since remarried another widower, but Mike is missed dearly, and will always be a big part of my life.

At times, all of us will be called to act as witnesses to the suffering of another. We will be unable to affect the outcome physically. Words will fail us. Prayer will seem futile. And yet, the act of bearing witness to someone else's trials is a sacred sorrow that offers and astounding glimpse of eternal joy." by Ginger Garrett

"Being willing to stay with a loved one throughout their travail, can be difficult....YES! But offering yourselves as faithful companions on a dark and dreadful journey can be an unmeasured blessing." (paraphrased by me)

5.11.2011

We Have a Concrete Pond!





We're back from our adventure with Glenn's daughter and family, and we're back to work making sense of all of this chaos....of combining our houses together.  We have found it tricky putting our hands on things since we've moved them, and it has also been an adventure just trying to figure out how to use a new stove, locating light switches, if a door is locked, etc.! 

Put that together with four aging dogs; two of which have been recently diagnosised with Cushing's Disease...making it necessary to measure EVERY drop of water they intake.....and you have 2, crazy, confused, aging, newlywed adults spinning in circles. 

And because we can't utilize the fenced in back yard to let the dogs out, because of the installation of the pool...it has been necessary for us to use the front yard, with my two Cocker Spaniels trying to behave like plow horses whenever they spot a car in motion, a bird, or heaven forsake...an individual.  They have me flying around in circles like a helicopter.  It's a sight!  Believe me!

But....the good thing is that we're surviving...adjusting...and we can almost see light at the end of the tunnel.  God is good!







This past Sunday my little granddaughters were dedicated.  They were both so adorable.  Such sweet family's.  God has loaned them to two wonderful moms, daddy's, and grandparent's.  It's a blessing knowing they are all seeking to raise them for God's glory. 

Drew and Ethan are just precious all in themselves.  We have wonderful conversations with them, when we're watching them.  Matt & Jill and Amber & Zac are doing such a beautiful job teaching them about the Lord, about life, and where their Papaw is, and how they will be reunited with him again, one day soon.  The comfort I see on their faces when they say this, makes the aching of my own heart lessen a little. "One Day Soon....I'm Going to See Him....One Day Soon!"




Lastly, the pool is coming along.  It shouldn't be too long before we can enjoy it.  But knowing Glenn and I,  ....we'll feel it important to put the landscape back in shape first,  since we lost every blade of grass back there.  So the work list never ends!  :-)
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